pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 628 Beat LA
"The finals of this season will be played between the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers. The first game of the finals between the two sides will start at the American Airlines Center of the Heat."

The NBA produced a super-burning finals promotional video. In the MV, some of the wonderful performances of the two teams this season were put in it. The promotional video is 7 minutes and 28 seconds long, which is the longest one since there is a promotional video.

After watching the promotional video, it will make people feel excited and can't help but play.

The reason why the promotional video was edited for such a long time is because both sides in the finals had a very exciting season performance this season. There were too many wonderful shots for the NBA officials to make a choice, so they had to cut all the wonderful scenes into it.

As the top players of the two teams, James and Wade are naturally the absolute protagonists of this film. They also have the most shots, but the presentation of the two shots is completely different.

Most of James’ collections focus on strong and unsolvable offenses, while Wade’s shots are more of incomparably gorgeous assists, which fully reflects the different roles played by the two stars in the game.

In addition to the top cards of the two teams, the most shots of the Lakers are given to Oscar. This rookie who joined the league this year is so skillful and experienced on the court. The significance of the team, the NBA still chose to rank him after Wade, and Barrett didn't care about this ranking.

Mu Chenfeng also has a lot of shots, and the level of excitement is no less than that of the previous stars, but with his big brothers, his position in the Heat can only be relied on.

"Is this really the game we played?" Some members of the Heat exclaimed after watching the promo.

"Yes, it's really exciting." Even players like Wade and Barrett didn't feel how exciting the game was, but after watching those shots from the audience's point of view, they were quite emotional, especially after seeing some key shots. The almost crazy reaction of the audience was really shocking.

"Mystery from the authorities, you were too involved in the game at the time. Of course, you don't have much feeling for the reaction of the audience. In fact, the reaction at that time was stronger than what was recorded on the camera." Su Mengyao has followed every game of the Heat from the perspective of a "bystander" throughout the season. She knows the reaction of the audience when those wonderful shots appear.

"I really want the finals to start soon." The Heat players can't wait to compete with the Lakers.

The Lakers arrived in Miami on a connecting flight three days before the game, preparing for the upcoming finals "Game 1" three days later.

This kind of advance is enough to show the determination of the Lakers. Winning or losing the first game of the finals is very critical, and will bring a great boost to the morale of the winning team, and this improvement will likely affect the follow-up direction of the finals.

As a visiting team, the purpose of the Lakers is very clear. They must win at least one of the previous two home games of the Heat, so that they can firmly hold the "home field advantage" in their own hands, but if they can win both away games, it will bring a fatal blow to the Heat.

What the Heat have to do is to keep their home court advantage, that is, they cannot lose the first two games, and losing any of them will lose their home court advantage in the following games.

The setting of the NBA's home court advantage is very subtle. After Jr. Stern returned to power, he changed the format of the finals back to the classic "2-2-1-1-1" format. The team with a better record in the regular season will play two home games first, and then the team with a slightly worse record will play two home games. The next three games will adopt the "1-1-1" format.

Such a series system is actually very unfriendly to teams with home court advantage, and it can even be said that there is a lot of pressure. No mistakes are allowed in the first two home courts. As long as they lose one of the games, the advantage will be gone. Therefore, the home team must try their best to win the first two games for the home court advantage, but if the series starts "2-0", then the direction of the finals will become clear.

Therefore, the reform of Stern Jr. has aroused heated discussions among many fans, but these voices are not enough to affect the advancement of the game. The finals still adopt the "2-2-1-1-1" competition system.

The Lakers are determined to eat a piece of meat at the Heat's home court, and then return to Los Angeles with a big score of "1-1" or even "2-0".

When I got off the plane, the words "BEAT -LA" greeted the Lakers everywhere, and the Heat fans were ready to meet their rivals.

The Lakers took the bus to the pre-booked hotel. Along the way, they were full of pictures about the support of the finals. As the totem of this city, the significance of the Heat to this city is needless to say. They have never "missed" when they reached the finals for two consecutive years.

The hotel where the Lakers stayed is not far from the training venue, a 5-minute walk away, but within this 5-minute distance, it was "carefully" arranged by Heat fans, full of pictures and signs of the Heat defeating the Lakers in past games, and they used this method to interfere with the Lakers.

"They really put a lot of effort into it." Some Lakers players really looked at those contents seriously.

"Don't they really think that this will affect us? It's really naive."

"That's right, that's right, when we were three-year-olds."

Just when the players behind were still "immersed" in the lively discussion, James suddenly said, "When your attention is on those things, you have already been affected."

James' "reminder" made the players shut up instantly.

James was looking at them from the corner of his eye, while Oscar, Felix, Raphael and others beside him were not affected at all, and they didn't make any comments from the beginning to the end, but walked towards the stadium calmly with their backpacks on their faces.

(End of this chapter)